Selected stories and articles

The author’s first new short story in four years is part of New York Magazine‘s Political Fictions Project. You can read it here.

Anthony Woods, a profile of the young politician in Esquire

He’s an Iraq-war vet, a West Point and Harvard grad, one of the first openly gay black men to run for Congress. And, now, in debt and out of a job. But that’s just the beginning of his story. Read the full profile here.

City Visit, a short story in the Atlantic Monthly

Published back in 2005, this story was later anthologized in the O’Henry Prize Stories and an Ecco Anthology of Contemporary American Short Fiction.

“As they rose onto the bridge, Brendan leaned against the taxi window, gazing into the towers lit against the night sky, just as they are in the beginning of all the Miramax films, or the shots from the blimp when they show evening games at the U.S. Open—only now he could see the red-and-white streams of car lights rushing along the river’s edge, beacons on the prows of ships jetting the waterway, a helicopter’s taillights cruising down the glittering shore.” Read full story…

San Francisco Chronicle: review of John Updike’s last story collection